✨ Government Appointments and Rewards
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. V. NELSON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1857. No. 4.
Provincial Secretary's Office,
Nelson, January 20, 1857.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs that the following notifications from the New Zealand Government Gazette be published for general information.
By his Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER,
Provincial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 1, 1856.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Commissioners of Native Reserves in the Province of Nelson, under "The New Zealand Native Reserves Act, 1856."
JOHN POYNTER, Esquire;
ALFRED DOMETT, Esquire;
THOMAS BRUNNER, Esquire.
By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
NEW ZEALAND FLAX.
£4,000 REWARD.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
December 20th, 1856.
THE Government of New Zealand is prepared, subject to the undermentioned conditions, to give rewards to the amount of £4,000, for the discovery of efficient means for rendering the flax, and other fibrous plants of New Zealand, available as articles of export, viz.:—
£2,000
To the person who shall, by some process of his own invention, first produce from the phormium tenax, or other fibrous plant indigenous to New Zealand, one hundred tons of merchandize.
£1,000
To any person, other than the person entitled to the first reward, who shall by some process of his own invention, next produce from the phormium tenax, or other fibrous plant indigenous to New Zealand, one hundred tons of merchandize.
£1,000,
Viz.:—£200 to each of the first five persons, other than those entitled to the first and second rewards, who shall by any process, whether of his own invention or not, produce from the phormium tenax, or other fibrous plant indigenous to New Zealand, twenty-five tons of merchandize.
The merchandize must be saleable as an article of export from the colony of New Zealand, and have been produced at a cost not exceeding 75 per cent. of its value at the port of entry from which it is exported; and the process used must be fully made known, with
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1857, No 4
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🏛️ Publication of notifications from the New Zealand Government Gazette
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration20 January 1857
Provincial Secretary, Notifications, Nelson
- S. L. Muller, Provincial Secretary
🪶 Appointment of Commissioners of Native Reserves
🪶 Māori Affairs1 December 1856
Commissioners, Native Reserves, Nelson, Appointments
- John Poynter (Esquire), Appointed Commissioner of Native Reserves
- Alfred Domett (Esquire), Appointed Commissioner of Native Reserves
- Thomas Brunner (Esquire), Appointed Commissioner of Native Reserves
- E. W. Stafford
🌾 Reward offered for New Zealand flax production
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources20 December 1856
Flax, Reward, Export, Phormium tenax, Industry